Two held after girl reports rape

Thursday October 18, 2007MYT 7:20:36 PM

MUAR: Police have detained two youths, aged 16 and 21, after a 14-year-old girl alleged that she had been raped twice.

The secondary school student said that one youth raped her in Taman Tangkak Jaya a week before Hari Raya and the other person raped her in Bukit Kepong on Oct 16.
The suspects, from Bukit Gambir and Bukit Kepong, were detained after the girl's father lodged a police report at 1am Thursday.

Muar CID chief Deputy Supt Khoo Leng Huat said the suspects, a school dropout and an unemployed, would be charged with statutory rape.